Wrocław's request for reliable information on the cessation of the plague before the resumption of trade

Most Noble and Prudent Lords, our highly respected Neighbors and Friends! We consider it unnecessary to describe at length the well-known obstacles that the plague, spreading for several years in the Kingdom of Poland, has brought to mutual trade. For a long time, we have sought a remedy against this misfortune and desired the removal of these obstacles, but until now our wish could not be fulfilled. Currently, the rumor that infections have completely ceased throughout Poland and the entire Kingdom has been cleansed of the plague brings us and our merchants some comfort [verb ending uncertain]. However, we cannot fully trust it, because until now it has often happened that hope has failed and the disease has broken out anew in one place or another. We have therefore decided to write to you and earnestly request that you inform us, with the loyalty and sincerity that this current dangerous matter requires and which we expect from you, about the current state of both the city and the entire province and the surrounding area. If we receive undoubted evidence that not only has all infection completely died out, but also that such diligence and effort have been applied to the purification of infected places and buildings that there remains no reason to fear an easy recurrence of the disease, this will lead to the restoration of trade between both provinces. If it is not immediately completely free, it will be restored at least on such terms that will bring significant relief and assistance to the exchange of goods. Also, the supreme authority itself strives for a successful conclusion of this matter. Since achieving the result of these efforts is in your interest no less than in ours, we hope all the more that our desire will be fulfilled as soon as possible. Meanwhile, we commend ourselves to God's care and remain devoted to you, the Councilors of the city of Wrocław. Given on May 6, 1712. Address: To the Most Noble and Prudent Lords, the Mayor and Councilors of the city of Lwów, our highly respected Neighbors and Friends. Lwów. Later archival cover: letter from the magistrate of Wrocław to the magistrate of Lwów regarding the restoration of trade relations interrupted by the plague epidemic; copy; May 6, 1712; 2 sheets.

Nobilissimi Prudentissimi Viri, Domini Vicini et Amici honoratissimi. Min[ime] necessarium esse ducimus, longa serie referre, quam notum hactenus Impedimenta mutuis Commerciis Pestis per aliquot Annos in Regno Poloniae grassata attulerit. Dudum huic Malo Remedium quaesitum, istaque Impedimenta Sublata optavimus, Voti tamen hactenus compotes reddi non potuimus. Nunc cum Fama quidem cessantis penitus in Universa Polonia Contagii, purgatique toto hoc Regno ab omni pestifera Lue Nos et Mercatores nostros aliqua parte solat[ur? — końcówka niepewna], certi tamen eidem confidere non possumus, cum hactenus non una Vice factum, ut Spes fefellerit et Morbus uno aliove in loco recruduerit. Ad nobilissimas itaque Dominationes Vestras hasce Literas exarandas duximus, quibus enixe rogamus, dignentur ea fide et Sinceritate, quam Praesens Periculosum Negotium requirit, quamque a Nobilissimis Dominationibus Vestris promittimus, de praesenti ut Civitatis, sic Totius Palatinatus, Viciniaeque Statu nos Certiores reddere. [Dopisane na lewym marginesie:] Sancte nobis [połączenie z głównym tekstem niepewne]. Quod si hunc ita [s. 3:] Sese habere indubiis Argumentis edocti fuerimus, ut non solum omne Contagium penitus extinctum sit, sed etiam ea hactenus Cura et Industria in Locis et aedib[us] infectis repurgandis adhibita fuerit, quae metui locum non reliquerit facile nascituri Mali, id hoc efficiet, ut restituantur utriusque Provinciae Commercia, si non prorsus statim libera, iis tamen conditionibus ut Levamen et auxilium sentiant Mercimonia non exiguum. Cui ad Salubrem perducendo Exitum uti ipsa Suprema Curia intenta est, ita cum non minus Dominationum Vestrarum ac nostra intersit hanc Curam Sortiri Effectum, tanto magis fore speramus, ut quantocyus Desiderii nostri reddamur compotes, interea divinae nos Protectioni commendantes et permanentes Nobilissimarum et Prudentissimarum Dominationum Vestrarum officiosi Consules Civitatis Wratislaviae. Dat[um] d[ie] 6. Maij. 1712. [Adres na s. 4:] Nobilissimis, Prudentissimis Viris Proconsuli et Consulibus Civitatis Leopoliensis, Dominis Vicinis et Amicis nostris Honoratissimis. Leopolis.